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Inclusive Jet Production in Photon-Photon Collisions at sqrt(s_ee) from 189 to 209 GeV
The OPAL collaboration
Inclusive jet production (e+e- -> e+e- +jet+X) is studied in collisions of quasi-real photons radiated by the LEP beams at e+e- centre-of-mass energies sqrt see from 189 to 209 GeV…
Search for Stable and Long-Lived Massive Charged Particles in e+e- Collisions at sqrt(s) = 183-209 GeV
The OPAL collaboration
A search for stable and long-lived massive particles of electric charge |Q/e|=1 or fractional charges of 2/3, 4/3, and 5/3 is reported using data collected by the OPAL detector at…
Search for Associated Production of Massive States Decaying into Two Photonsin e+e- Annihilations at sqrt(s) = 88-209 GeV
The OPAL collaboration, G. Abbiendi
A search is performed for production of short-lived particles in e+e- -> XY, with X -> gamma gamma and Y -> ffbar, for scalar X and scalar or vector Y. Model-independent limits in…
Measurement of the Hadronic Photon Structure Function F2gamma at LEP2
The OPAL collaboration, G. Abbiendi
The hadronic structure of the photon F2gamma is measured as a function of Bjorken x and of the photon virtuality Q2 using deep-inelastic scattering data taken by the OPAL detector…
Genuine Correlations of Like-Sign Particles in Hadronic Z0 Decays
The OPAL collaboration, G. Abbiendi
Correlations among hadrons with the same electric charge produced in Z0 decays are studied using the high statistics data collected from 1991 through 1995 with the OPAL detector at…
Angular Analysis of the Muon Pair Asymmetry at LEP 1
The OPAL collaboration, G. Abbiendi
Data on muon pair production obtained by the OPAL collaboration at centre of mass energies near the Z peak are analysed. Small angular mismatches between the directions of the two…
Measurement of Vub using b hadron semileptonic decays
The OPAL collaboration, G. Abbiendi
The magnitude of the CKM matrix element Vub is determined by measuring the inclusive charmless semileptonic branching fraction of beauty hadrons at OPAL based on b -> Xu l nu event…
Measurement of the Branching Ratio for D_s->tau nu_tau Decays
The OPAL collaboration, G. Abbiendi
Using about 3.9 million hadronic Z decays from e+e- collisions recorded by the OPAL detector at LEP at centre-of-mass energies near MZ the branching ratio for the decay D_s -> tau…
Measurement of the B0 Lifetime and Oscillation Frequency using B0->D*+l-v decays
The OPAL collaboration, G. Abbiendi
The lifetime and oscillation frequency of the B0 meson has been measured using B0->D*+l-v decays recorded on the Z0 peak with the OPAL detector at LEP. The D*+ -> D0pi+ decays were…
A Measurement of the Rate of Charm Production in W Decays
The OPAL collaboration, G. Abbiendi
Using data recorded at centre-of-mass energies around 183 GeV and 189 GeV with the OPAL detector at LEP, the fundamental coupling of the charm quark to the W boson has been studied…
Measurement of the Mass and Width of the W Boson in e+e- Collisions at 189 GeV
The OPAL collaboration, G. Abbiendi
The mass and width of the W boson are determined in e+e- collisions at LEP using 183 pb^-1 of data recorded at a centre-of-mass energy roots=189 GeV with the OPAL detector. The inv…
Searches for prompt light gravitino signatures in e+e- Collisions at sqrt{s}=189GeV
The OPAL collaboration, G. Abbiendi
Searches for final states expected in models with light gravitinos have been performed, including experimental topologies with multi-leptons with missing energy, leptons and photon…
A measurement of the tau mass and the first CPT test with tau leptons
G. Abbiendi, the OPAL collaboration
We measure the mass of the tau lepton to be 1775.1+-1.6(stat)+-1.0(syst.) MeV using tau pairs from Z0 decays. To test CPT invariance we compare the masses of the positively and neg…
Photonic events with missing energy in e+e- collisions at sqrt(s)=189 GeV
G. Abbiendi, the OPAL collaboration
Photonic events with large missing energy have been observed in e+e- collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 189GeV using the OPAL detector at LEP. Results are presented for event…
Z boson pair production in e+e- collisions at sqrt(s) = 183 and 189 GeV
The OPAL collaboration, G. Abbiendi
A study of Z boson pair production in e+e- annihilation at center-of-mass energies near 183 GeV and 189 GeV is reported. Final states containing only leptons, (l+l-l+l- and l+l-nu…
Search for new Physics in rare B Decays
The OPAL collaboration, G. Abbiendi
A search for the decay B+- to K+-K+-pi-+ was performed using data collected by the OPAL detector at LEP. These decays are strongly suppressed in the Standard Model but could occur…
Measurement of the W+W-gamma Cross-section and First direct Limits on Anomalous Electroweak Quartic Gauge Couplings
The OPAL collaboration, G. Abbiendi
A study of W+W- events accompanied by hard photon radiation produced in e+e- collisions at LEP is presented. Events consistent with two on-shell W-bosons and an isolated photon are…
A Measurement of the tau->electron Branching Ratio
The OPAL Collaboration, G. Abbiendi et al
The branching ratio for the decay tau->e nue nutau has been measured using Z0 decay data collected by the OPAL experiment at LEP. In total 33073 tau->e nue nutau candidates were id…
Bose-Einstein Correlations in e+e- to W+W- at 172 and 183 GeV
The OPAL Collaboration, G. Abbiendi et al
Bose-Einstein correlations between like-charge pions are studied in hadronic final states produced by e+e- annihilations at center-of-mass energies of 172 and 183 GeV. Three event…
A Measurement of Rb using a Double Tagging Method
The OPAL Collaboration, G. Abbiendi et al
The fraction of Z to bbbar events in hadronic Z decays has been measured by the OPAL experiment using the data collected at LEP between 1992 and 1995. The Z to bbbar decays were ta…
First Measurement of Z/gamma* Production in Compton Scattering of Quasi-real Photons
OPAL Collaboration, G. Abbiendi et al
We report the first observation of Z/gamma* production in Compton scattering of quasi-real photons. This is a subprocess of the reaction e+e- to e+e-Z/gamma*, where one of the fina…
Search for Higgs Bosons and New Particles Decaying into Two Photons at sqrt(s) = 183 GeV
The OPAL Collaboration, K. Ackerstaff et al
A search for the resonant production of high mass photon pairs associated with a leptonic or hadronic system has been performed using a data sample of 57.7 pb-1 collected at an ave…
Measurement of the Average Polarization of b Baryons in Hadronic Z^0 Decays
The OPAL Collaboration, G. Abbiendi et al
In the Standard Model, b quarks produced in e^+e^- annihilation at the Z^0 peak have a large average longitudinal polarization of -0.94. Some fraction of this polarization is expec…
Search for Stable and Long-Lived Massive Charged Particles with the OPAL Detector at LEP in e+e- Collisions at \sqrt{s}=130-183 GeV
The OPAL Collaboration, K. Ackerstaff et al
A search for stable and long-lived massive particles of electric charge |Q/e| = 1 or 2/3, pair-produced in e+e- collisions at centre-of-mass energies from 130 to 183 GeV, is report…